Most Days

The default parent is the one who knows everything. Who knows what size diaper the kids wear. Who tracks the lunch supplies, the babysitter's schedule, the medicine doses. It usually falls on mom, and when both parents work, it's a fast track to burnout. Kevin and I sit down during naptime to talk about how this became a real problem in our marriage, how we started to work through it, an...

Burnout doesn’t always mean you need a new job. Sometimes it means you’ve lost the thread of why you’re working in the first place, and your days have drifted out of balance. I break burnout down into a simple framework I keep coming back to: paycheck, passion, and purpose. When one of those pillars gets weak, work starts to feel heavier than it should, even if nothing “big” changed on paper. We s...

Perfection is a trap, and most advice sounds better than it works. I'm starting Most Days with a simpler, truer standard: aim for progress most days, not flawless every day. In this first episode I get into the real reasons I'm doing this. I want accountability that isn't already built into my work. I want to slow life down through some actual self-reflection. And I've had a lo...

We talk honestly about what it takes to run family businesses while staying connected as a couple and as parents. We share the wake-up calls that pushed us from chasing work-life balance to building work-life harmony through boundaries, perspective, and better habits.  • why “harmony” beats “balance” when you’re building a career and a family  • the moment work comes home and how we try to stop it...